In a mailing list post today, Fedora Program Manager Robyn Bergeron announced that Fedora 15 is ready for release on May 24, 2011.

Today BMC Software, Eucalyptus Systems, HP, IBM, Intel, Red Hat and SUSE announced the formation of the Open Virtualization Alliance. The announcement says that the consortium will "promote examples of customer successes, encourage interoperability and accelerate the expansion of the ecosystem of third-party solutions around KVM, providing businesses improved choice, performance and price for virtualization."

Red Hat announces the availablity of RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) via Amazon EC2 on-demand and with pay-as-you go pricing.

Red Hat unveils new cloud offerings at the Boston, Massachusetts, summit this week.

On April 26, 2011, Red Hat's DeLisa Alexander, executive vice president, People and Brand, and Lee Congdon, CIO, will participate in the North Carolina Technology Association (NCTA) 2011 Spring Conference.

On Wednesday, April 20, 2011, Adam Drew of Red Hat will host the Making Music with FOSS webcast as part of the Open Your World Forum Series sponsored by opensource.com.

Announced today on the Fedora announce mailing list, the Fedora 15 (Lovelock) beta is now available for download.

Red Hat announces IBM, Accenture, Alfresco, Cisco, HP and Intel representatives are scheduled to deliver keynotes at the seventh annual Red Hat Summit and JBoss World, May 3-6, 2011 in Boston, Massachusetts.

In a Fedora community vote, Fedora 16 release has been named Verne.